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"There will come a time, I know, when people will take delight in one another, when each will be a star to…
If you listen to right wing commentators, you might think American progressives are leading the charge to protect our planet from climate…
The dogma on which Margaret Thacher introduced neoliberalism – that is: “there is no alternative”- has been very popular among world leaders,…
ZCom received the following open letter from John Pilger reporting very disturbing events in progress. We thought it important to make public…
Thank you all for coming to the 12th annual award of the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism. Some would say there are…
“Do you remember Mahmoud?” asked Abu Nidal, my neighbor from nearly 20 years ago, when I lived in Gaza. “Yes, of course,…
"I went in thinking that I was sacrificing my freedom by taking such an action. This is not really the case. The…
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After the assassination of bin Laden I received such a deluge of requests for comment that I was unable to respond individually,…
In the context of the criticisms that many of us have of the Obama administration for what it has not accomplished, for…
Nader al-Masri is an inspiration. The 31-year-old Gaza athlete seems completely oblivious to challenges that would seem insurmountable to most. On May…
The illegal eavesdropping on famous people by the News of the World is said to be Rupert Murdoch’s Watergate. But is it…
On May 4, 2011, CNN World News asked whether killing Osama bin Laden was legal under international law. [http://articles.cnn.com/2011-05-04/world/bin.laden.legal_1_al-qaeda-leader-bin-cia-director-leon-panetta?_s=PM:WORLD] Other news commentary…
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It’s increasingly clear that the operation was a planned assassination, multiply violating elementary norms of international law. There appears to have been…
I’LL BEGIN with an interesting debate that took place some years ago between Carl Sagan, the well-known astrophysicist, and Ernst Mayr, the…
In most of the world, May Day is an international workers' holiday, bound up with the bitter 19th-century struggle of American workers…
Osama bin Laden is no martyr. He is certainly no Che Guevara, whose fate at the hands of the Central Intelligence Agency…
The facts all point to this “inconvenient truth” — the time has come to shut down California’s two nuclear power plants as…
COINTELPRO 101, produced by Freedom Archives. Available to order through: https://co.clickandpledge.com/advanced/default.aspx?wid=33028 I read The Autobiography of Malcolm X when I was 13…
Looking at the UK, US & Europe, to what extent are our societies free and democratic? These Societies are quite free by…
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is not alone in bashing public employees these days. In the view of his fellow GOP governor, Mitch…
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“Dear Mary,” wrote Italian justice activist Vittorio Arrigoni to a friend. “Do you (know who) will be on the boats?… I’m still…
At the start of 2011, as the energy corporations, the US Chamber of Commerce, and the Tea Party right launched their assault…
Our friends over at ZNet are currently conducting a poll to test the appetite for a new internationalist radical organization. A letter…
The democracy uprising in the Arab world has been a spectacular display of courage, dedication, and commitment by popular forces — coinciding,…
The Western intervention in Libya aroused much more passion in the Western left than it did in Arab countries. Or, to put…
Throughout the United States, pro-labor activists are beginning to realize that the right to collective bargaining — currently under assault — is…
The Euro-American attack on Libya has nothing to do with protecting anyone; only the terminally naive believe such nonsense. It is the…
1. Is Qaddafi socialist? Was he ever? Socialists believe that people should democratically and collectively control all aspects of their lives. Qaddafi…
Noam Chomsky on the egyptian revolution, Belgian TV on 20/03/2011.
The Varsity: I thought we could start with the recent upheavals in the Middle East. Could you discuss recent events in Tunisia,…
Frank Barat asks Prof Noam Chomsky 6 questions that were sent by Alice Walker, John Berger, Ken Loach, Paul Laverty, Amira Hass…
1. What are U.S. motives in international relations most broadly? That is, what are the over arching motives and themes one can pretty…
SP- Prof Chomsky, where do you locate the contours of the current crisis in Egypt, Tunisia and rest of the Middle East? …
Noam Chomsky Responsibility and integrity: the dilemmas we face (Utrecht, Netherlands) Part 1 is above. The Remaining parts are below… Noam Chomsky…
[This is a somewhat expanded version of a blog post that appeared just a few days ago and engendered considerable reaction.] …
March 19 marks the eighth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, a nation that had no weapons of mass destruction and was…
For the seven years since he was overthrown in a coup in February 2004 there have been many different speculations about why…
Breaking Australia's silence: WikiLeaks and freedom' was a public forum held on 16 March 2011 at the Sydney Town Hall staged by…
The Arab democratic uprisings have brought a rush of nostalgia to many people who staged their own democratic revolutions years earlier. As…
A talk by Noam Chomsky on the current crises in the middle east. The talk was held in Cardiff, Wales (UK) on…
Bradley Manning is accused of humiliating the political establishment by revealing the complicity of top US officials in carrying out and covering…
From January 2011 — Noam Chomsky of MIT discusses the Green Movement in relation to the regional politics of Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan,…
Walden Bello is the author of "Deglobalization: Ideas for a New World Economy" and "Dilemmas of Domination: The Unmaking of the American…
Venezuelanalysis.com conducted the following interview with Gregory Wilpert. Wilpert is a sociologist, freelance journalist, co-founder of Venezuelanalysis.com, and author of the book, Changing…
"The sad truth is that Obama’s war policies have turned out to be even more of a nightmare than I expected.” – Malalai…
[Slightly edited and footnoted version of remarks delivered at New York University 28 Feb 2011 for Israel Apartheid Week] This evening a…
